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Subject: Re: [PATCH] LVM snapshot support for reiserfs and others
To: akpm@zip.com.au (Andrew Morton)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 23:01:39 +0100 (BST)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> ext3 will probably lock up on unmount with 2.4.8-pre8.  The fix is
> to replace fsync_dev with fsync_no_super in fs/ext3/super.c and
> fs/jbd/recovery.c.  I'll be generating a new patchset this weekend.

Actually if you dont fix recovery.c it will hang the machine when you mount
an fs that needs recovering. With the old patches at least umount of ext3
seems fine as is.

Alan